HEROES: Patriotic Chore

On Seattle newsstands, in store windows,
barroom mirrors, tobacco stalls, garage doors last week appeared
posters announcing a memorial meeting in the Senator Auditorium for
Thane Summers, 25, killed in May fighting with the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade for the Leftist Army in Spain. The posters were signed by
"Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade." Admission to the meeting was
25¢.

Father of Seattle's late Thane Summers is Lane Summers, well-to-do,
publicity-shunning maritime lawyer, whose prime clients include such
companies as the Grace and Matson steamship lines, Union Pacific R.R.
Co. Instead of pleasing him, the posters stirred him to anger....